Microtus guentheri (Danford and Alston, 1880)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 521

Microtus guentheri (Danford and Alston, 1880) . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Maras Prov., Taurus Mtns, near Maras (= Marash) .

DISTRIBUTION: S Bulgaria, S Yugoslavia, E Greece, and W Turkey (see Niethammer, 1982e).

SYNONYMS: hartingi , lydius , macedonicus , martinoi, strandzensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Microtus , sodalis species group sensu Zagorodnyuk (1990) . Gromov and Polyakov (1977) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) placed this species in subgenus Sumeriomys , but Zagorodnyuk (1990) left it in the subgenus Microtus . Corbet (1978c) initially included guentheri in M. sodalis but later recognized its specific distinctness ( Corbet, 1984), which was earlier demonstrated by Felten et al. (1971) and Morlok (1978). Harrison and Bates (1991) continued to unite guentheri with M. socialis . Reviewed by Niethammer (1982c); chromosomal data summarized and reviewed by Zima and Krâl (1984a).